Greek Alternate Finance Minister Giorgos Chouliarakis stated at Economist conference in Athens that Greek government should speed up privatisation program.

Privatisations are an important part of the memorandums that are applied in Greece since 2010 however the revenues that have been brought are less than 3,5 bil. euros.

The privatizations that have been planned for this year is the selling of 66% of DESFA (Hellenic Gas Transmission System Operator S.A.) and 67% of OLTH (Thessaloniki Port Authority)

Mr. Chouliarakis also admitted that “No one expected debt relief measures at this phase” adding that «medium-term measures would be clarified at the end of the bailout program, in 2018».